Wait, will Danilo Gallinari return sooner than expected?

Nuggets forward Danilo Gallinari posted a video on his official Facebook page Friday in Italian, and the video was translated to say that surgery revealed his left ACL wasn’t torn and recovery time will be “completely different” than expected, according to the Italian journalist Davide Chinellato (a writer for Italian La Gazzetta dello Sport who translated Gallo’s video and posted the quotes on Twitter).

Calls to Gallinari, Nuggets PR and his agent were not immediately returned.

Originally, Gallo wasn’t supposed to return until possibly February.

Chinellato tweeted that Gallo called it “great news.” Here are more tweets from him:

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